Will the West Start Fighting Terror the Israeli Way?
To imitate the Jews, or to blame them?
November 18, 2015
A museum exhibit returns.
At the time of its founding (in 1973), the Yeshiva University Museum commissioned ten hand-made scale models of historic synagogues, ranging from a 3rd-century Syrian synagogue to the 19th-century Tempio Israelitico in Florence, Italy. The museum has put the miniatures on display once more—for the first time in almost 30 years. Diane Bolz writes:
To imitate the Jews, or to blame them?
Russian is the third language of Islamic State.
Would it have been “shameful” for the United States to provide special help to Jewish refugees in the 1930s?
A museum exhibit returns.
Did one influence the other?
At the time of its founding (in 1973), the Yeshiva University Museum commissioned ten hand-made scale models of historic synagogues, ranging from a 3rd-century Syrian synagogue to the 19th-century Tempio Israelitico in Florence, Italy. The museum has put the miniatures on display once more—for the first time in almost 30 years. Diane Bolz writes:
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